Leaders in EDI: The Voice's Rodney Hinds & The NBA Foundation's Greg Taylor

Leaders’ Editor John Portch joins host Javan Odegah in conversation with Voice’s Sports Editor, and Sky Sports’ Lisali Sitali joins Executive Director Greg Taylor on stage at Leaders Week.

Leaders in EDI is a monthly series covering news, views, comments and debates happening across the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion space. We also shine a spotlight on the progress being made and the challenges being faced in EDI across sport.

This month, we have a jam-packed episode to mark Black History Month here in the UK. At 14:38, the Leaders team are joined by Rodney Hinds, the longstanding Sports Editor at The Voice (Britain’s favourite Black newspaper), who talks about the importance of mentorship in the EDI space. At the 29 minute mark, we then move to a conversation originally recorded on the Headline Stage at Leaders Week London, where Sky Sports' Head of Marketing Lisali Sitali was in conversation with the NBA Foundation's Executive Director Greg Taylor. In an engaging exploration, the pair reflect on how the NBA is using the power of its brand, the cruciality of engaging with players from recruitment to beyond retirement, and what inspired the formation of the NBA foundation and the National Basketball Social Justice Coalition.

The Leaders in EDI podcast is part of the Leaders Meet: Diversity Series, delivered in partnership with Meta, which provides a platform for executives within sport to come together to drive diversity across the industry, accelerate the pace of change and inspire the next generation of executives, through thought-leadership events and digital forums. To find out more about the Leaders Meet: Diversity series, please visit: https://info.leadersinsport.com/l/856843/2021-04-21/hfhrj

In the timeline section of the episode, we speak about the IPC’s #WeThe15 video, which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHCDvdCaJhI